MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow George Saunders is the acclaimed author of several collections of short stories, including Pastoralia and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, as well as a collection of essays and a book for children. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
“The best book you’ll read this year.”—The New York Times
Magazine
“A feat of inventiveness . . . This eclectic collection never
ceases to delight with its at times absurd, surreal, and darkly
humorous look at very serious subjects. . . . George Saunders makes
you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first
time.”—Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
“The best short-story writer in English—not ‘one of,’ not
‘arguably,’ but the Best.”—Mary Karr, Time
“A visceral and moving act of storytelling . . . No one writes more
powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the
disenfranchised.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“Saunders’s startling, dreamlike stories leave you feeling newly
awakened to the world.”—People
“It’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George
Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.”—The
Wall Street Journal
“An irresistible mix of humor and humanity . . . that will make you
beam with unmitigated glee. [Grade:] A”—Entertainment Weekly
“Saunders captures the fragmented rhythms, disjointed sensory
input, and wildly absurd realities of the twenty-first century
experience like no other writer.”—The Boston Globe
“Tenth of December shows George Saunders at his most subversive,
hilarious, and emotionally piercing. Few writers can encompass that
range of adjectives, but Saunders is a true original—restlessly
inventive, yet deeply humane.”—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer
Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
“George Saunders is a complete original, unlike anyone else, thank
god—and yet still he manages to be the rightful heir to three other
complete American originals—Barthelme (the lyricism, the
playfulness), Vonnegut (the outrage, the wit, the scope), and Twain
(the common sense, the exasperation). There is no author I
recommend to people more often—for ten years I’ve urged George
Saunders onto everyone and everyone. You want funny? Saunders is
your man. You want emotional heft? Saunders again. You want stories
that are actually about something—stories that again and again get
to the meat of matters of life and death and justice and country?
Saunders. There is no one better, no one more essential to our
national sense of self and sanity.”—Dave Eggers, author of A
Hologram for the King
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